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<span class=large>HOSEA</span>
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CHAPTER 9
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Israel taken into captivity for their sins—Ephraim shall be a wanderer among the nations.
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Rejoice</span> not, O Israel, for joy, as <i>other</i> people: for thou hast gone a <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/9/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 31: 16; Hosea 5: 3.">whoring</a> from thy God, thou hast loved a <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/9/1b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR harlot’s hire.">reward</a> upon every <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/9/1c" mark="c" type="D" title="OR threshing floor.">cornfloor</a>.
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The floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail in her.
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They shall not dwell in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>’s <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/9/3a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 2: 7.">land</a>; but Ephraim shall return to <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/9/3b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hosea 8: 13 (11-14).">Egypt</a>, and they shall eat <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/9/3c" mark="c" type="A" title="Ezek. 4: 13; Dan. 1: 8.">unclean</a> <i>things</i> in Assyria.
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They shall not offer wine <i>offerings</i> to the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices <i>shall be</i> unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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What will ye do in the solemn day, and in the day of the feast of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>?
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For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant <i>places</i> for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns <i>shall be</i> in their <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/9/6a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB tents.">tabernacles</a>.
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The days of <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/9/7a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB punishment; Isa. 10: 3; D&C 56: 1.">visitation</a> are come, the days of recompence are come; Israel shall know <i>it:</i> the prophet <i>is</i> a <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/9/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Ezek. 13: 3.">fool</a>, the spiritual man <i>is</i> mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
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The watchman of Ephraim <i>was</i> with my God: <i>but</i> the prophet <i>is</i> a snare of a fowler in all his ways, <i>and</i> hatred in the house of his God.
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They have deeply <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/9/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 32: 7; D&C 38: 11.">corrupted</a> <i>themselves,</i> as in the days of <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/9/9b" mark="b" type="A" title="Judg. 19: 14 (12-30); Hosea 10: 9.">Gibeah</a>: <i>therefore</i> he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their sins.
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I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/9/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jer. 24: 2.">fig</a> tree at her first time: <i>but</i> they went to <sup>b</sup><a href="hosea/9/10b" mark="b" type="A" title="Num. 25: 3 (1-3); Ps. 106: 28.">Baal</a>-peor, and separated themselves unto <i>that</i> shame; and <i>their</i> <sup>c</sup><a href="hosea/9/10c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Sexual Immorality.">abominations</a> were according as they loved.
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<i>As for</i> Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird, from the birth, and from the womb, and from the conception.
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Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, <i>that there shall</i> not <i>be</i> a man <i>left:</i> yea, woe also to them when I <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/9/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Sam. 16: 14; 1 Sam. 28: 15 (15-16); Ezek. 10: 18.">depart</a> from them!
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Ephraim, as I saw <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/9/13a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE Tyre.">Tyrus</a>, <i>is</i> planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
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Give them, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>: what wilt thou give?  give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
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All their wickedness <i>is</i> in <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/9/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Hosea 12: 11; Amos 4: 4.">Gilgal</a>: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes <i>are</i> revolters.
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Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay <i>even</i> the beloved <i>fruit</i> of their womb.
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My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto him: and they shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="hosea/9/17a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">wanderers</a> among the nations.
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